Baked Eggs with Spinach, Garlic and Chili
Welcome to my first blog post and what I consider to be one of my favourite lunchtime feasts.
Welcome to my first blog post and what I consider to be one of my favourite lunchtime feasts.
Truth. I had never heard of a Pizookie until last week. Seemingly alone in my culinary ignorance I quickly discovered that the ever popular oversized cookie baked in a pan is merely the generic term…
I have implemented a new rule in the house - no meal can take longer to make than to clean up. I find that this is quite easy to enforce Monday - Friday, but come…
This weekend we celebrate the Jewish holiday of Purim, which in this household mainly consists of baking and sharing (and of course consuming multiple) Hamantaschen, a triangle shaped cookie traditionally filled with either prune, apricot or poppyseed. If you…
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I would love to tell you about this cake’s nostalgic and well adapted history, but I can’t. Nigella’s Chocolate Olive Oil Cake is perfect. It is the only dessert (apart from Aunt Jeanette's Chocolate Meringues)…
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For many years I ran an interior design business specialising in residential interiors. I worked on many refurbishment projects, and every so often I would turn up on site, or ...
I made this Eccles Cake Semifreddo last December for the Pump St Christmas party in Orford. Famous for their award winning Eccles Cakes (and bakery) it only seemed appropriate to create this semifreddo for them…
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For our next date, let’s make an all time favourite of mine, CRUMBLE BARS. A cinch to assemble these tart, buttery, crumbly yet crisp based squares of deliciousness tick all the boxes of comforting treat…
The past three months of our Monday Bake Dates together have brought extraordinary joy, inspiration, connection, comfort, purpose, laughter, sharing and heart warming friendship in ways I never imagined. Thanks to ...